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Miles from the Mainstream
D. R. ZUKERMAN, proprietor
The Republicans are Heading to Reg City

July 10, 2004 --

During the winter, LPR posted photos of GOP convention hotels as a service to the delegates. With the convention less than two months away, LPR now calls attention to tourist sites in Bloombergburg.


The Duffy Square press pen - to be a common sight when the GOP is in town?


This edition begins at Duffy Square, where many of the open top red sight-seeing buses begin their trip. One evening,
a few weeks ago, LPR met a lovely mother-daughter duo and here posts
their photo, not-withstanding the fact that the camera would not obey LPR's request to focus on the persons, and not the
place.

A Mom and Daughter duo from St. Catherine, Ontario, Canada.


There was an event about to begin in the
square (at 47th Street) that evening, an event that provided a press pen. LPR decided not to stay confined, shortly after meeting mother and daughter from St.
Catherine, Ontario.

LPR has a hunch 47th Street might be the closest it will be able to get to the GOP convention at Madison Square Garden, little more than half a mile down Seventh Avenue. While being confined to a press pen, of course. (Will cameras be allowed?)

Columbus Circle on July 9th. LPR has a hunch this area will be all spruced up by the time the GOP delegates arrive.


As of July 9, Columbus Circle -- address of the new Time Warner Building -- is still undergoing construction. LPR has another hunch that the work will be completed by time of the GOP National Convention, to be enjoyed by any delegates who dare to travel as far north as 59th Street.

If Republicans do decide to venture north of 59th Street, they are not likely to be disappointed if they go to Aix, at 88th Street and Broadway, for drinks, or dinner. (Aix is pronounced "ex")


Aix, at 88th Street and Broadway.


Yankee Stadium, of course, is in The Bronx, at 161st Street And River Avenue. Cleveland will be visiting September 1 and 2, the last two days of the convention; Baltimore will be at the Stadium, September 3 - 5. The Stadium is about half an hour by subeay from mid-Manhattan.

Yankee Stadium, in the Bronx at 161st Street and River Avenue.


The Dakota is the building where the movie "Rosemary's Baby" was filems, and where, at the entrance, John Lennon was shot and killed on December 8, 1980.


The Dakota is the apartment building with gravitas on 72nd Street and Central Park West. Alas, it will perhaps best be known for tragedy: John Lennon, a resident of the Dakota, was shot and killed at the 72nd Street entrance, December 8, 1980.  

The Statue of former President Teddy Roosevelt is in the front of the Museum of Natural History.


 Nine blocks up Central Park West is the American Museum of Natural History and its statue of GOP icon Teddy Roosevelt on horseback, with native Americans walking alongside. Hayden's Planetarium is behind the museum.

 

Inside Central Park, not far from the Museum of Natural History, is the Delacorte Theater, with "Much Ado About Nothing" - the summer production, and a cast including Sam Waterston ("Law and Order") and Jimmy Smits (formerly of "NYPD Blue"). Here are three visitors from Belgium.


Diagonally across from the museum, inside Central Park is the Delacorte Theater which is producing "Much Ado
About Nothing," this summer. The Delacorte season ends, however, about three weeks before the Republicans come to town. LPR got this photo of three visitors from Belgium early in the Delacorte 2004 season: Mie, Bartholomeeusen, Lotte van Leuffel and
Lief Bartholomeeusen (l-r)

What on the East Side is a traffic direction, might be a political credo on the West Side.


There are a couple of interesting signs on the east side, at Madison Avenue and 84th Street that should be called to the attention of GOP delegates. They read: "WEST SIDE/KEEP LEFT" These signs on Madison Avenue are obviously travel directions, but LPR wonders that they are taken very seriously, in a political context, on the other side of Central Park.

Grant's Tomb.


This peace inscription was not placed by United for Peace and Justice, it is a quote from U.S. Grant and appears on the Grant's Tomb facade.


If Republicans take Riverside Drive as far as 122nd Street, they will see Riverside Church on the right and Grant's Tomb on the left. This is to assure GOP delegates that the inscription "LET US HAVE PEACE" comes from General Grant -- not from Michael Moore or United For Peace and Justice.

The tour buses continue up Riverside Drive, near 125th Street, and within sight of the George Washington Bridge, to return to midtown.

Next LPR--Some of the bridges of Reg City. And the Circle Line.